Unique formats bring products and brands to life in highly relevant contexts

SAN FRANCISCO – After several months of in-market use with select customers, Kontera, the leading provider of relevant In-Text Advertising and Information Solutions, formally launched its newest ad unit family… the Freedom Ads.
Read the full story

U.S. advertisers can now benefit from only true semantic ad network available

NEW YORK – ad pepper media, the international online advertising network, announced the expansion to the U.S. of the iSense™ Network, the only ad network offering true semantic placement of display media across more than 3,000 content categories. With its award-winning technology and linguistic approach to online advertising, iSense solves the prolific problem of misplaced or out of context online display ads.

iSense Network combines ad pepper’s 10 years of ad network best practice with proprietary cutting edge technology. Underpinning iSense is a patented technology that provides real-time semantic analysis of web pages to identify their true meanings and serve relevant display ads. The result of 11 years of research and development by Professor David Crystal, one of the world’s leading linguists, iSense leverages an extensive semantic ontology in order to derive the subject matter of a page with unprecedented accuracy. Unlike other so-called semantic technologies that use a mathematical approach, iSense benefits from a deeper analysis of each and every word on a page. As a result, publishers profit from targeted ad monetization opportunities on every webpage, while advertisers benefit from more precise ad placement that eliminates wasted impressions whilst increasing contextual relevance and ROI.
Read the full story

- Study by AOL’s Platform-A and OMD Finds that Today’s ‘Supermoms’ Pack 27 Hours of Activities Into 16-Hour Waking Day
The new trend in superpowers may be the ability to create time. At least that’s what the “Supermoms” are doing. Today’s moms have become champion multi-taskers who are using mobile phones, the Internet and other media to help them pack 27 hours of activities – including eight hours spent with media – into 16 hours of waking time each day, according to a new study by AOL’s Platform-A and global communications agency OMD. The study, called “Living La Vida Rapida: Today’s Parents Living a Double Life at Double Time,” explored online moms’ lifestyles and media preferences, as well as how advertisers and marketers can leverage these insights to communicate with them more effectively. Platform-A, http://www.platform-a.com, is AOL’s digital advertising business.

- Epic Advertising Appoints Rob Wilson
Epic Advertising (www.EpicAdvertising.com), the New York-based online marketing leader, announced today that it has appointed international online marketing veteran Rob Wilson to the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager, Europe. Mr. Wilson will be based in London, England, and will start his new post on October 16, 2008. In his position at Epic Advertising, Mr. Wilson is responsible for the further development and general strategic oversight of the company’s European-based businesses. He will also oversee all operational facets of the European-based division, including office expansion and staffing, as well as strategic oversight and P&L. Prior to joining Epic Advertising, Mr. Wilson served as Regional Director for the US and UK markets for Zanox, a performance marketing company headquartered in Berlin.

NEW YORK – The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) closed this year’s highly successful MIXX Conference and Expo with the presentation tonight of the fourth annual MIXX Awards. The MIXX Awards are the only honor devoted exclusively to interactive advertising, and the only juried competition that recognizes excellence in both creativity and effectiveness. For the first time, the digital advertising campaigns were evaluated by senior executives from agencies, publishers and marketing organizations deliberating together, sharing their distinct perspectives on what makes advertising creative successful. Tonight’s multimedia gala was emceed by Rob Norman, GroupM Interaction Worldwide CEO.

“The sheer volume of submissions coupled with the extraordinary level of creativity that cut across such a wide swath of platforms and technologies speaks to the vitality of the interactive advertising industry,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the IAB. “Interactive advertising is breaking new ground in engaging consumers in ways that we had not even dreamed of, and the pace of change will only continue to accelerate.”
Read the full story

New York, NY – April 02, 2008 – ADTECH US, one of the leaders in providing integrated ad management solutions, announced today that it has signed four new clients to its rapidly growing United States branch. The new clients include online Worth International, Wi-Fi Guys, Oddcast and Fixion Media and join a stable that includes A&E Television Network, photo blogging site Fotolog and interactive marketing agency Artyso.

• Worth International (www.worthit.com) is a leading publisher of both print and online publications. Worth has a forty year track record, producing publications to such varied industries as travel and tourism, culture and the arts, sports, aviation, retail, healthcare and others. Their publications include Recommend, the highest circulated North American travel publication.
Read the full story